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Marciano · Molotov

EXERCISE 11 OF 39
Groove J
43 / 67 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART S
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGCSEY+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Marciano on drums

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 109 BPM, 2:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 2-13, ride through bars 14-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, ride through bars 29-35, hi-hat through bars 36-47 and ride through bars 48-67.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16 and 19, and 5 more places -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    16
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----r---------------r-----------|
T2 |------------x-------------------|
BD |--------x---x-----------x---x---|
Marciano -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 17, 32, 35, 51, 61, 65 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- G, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-14 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-33 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 36-52 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Marciano?

109 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Marciano hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Marciano?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 17, 32, 35, 51, 61, 65 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED